If you follow this procedure you will hopefully end up with
a jpg image on your tty consoles with boot up text displayed
ontop.

NOTES:

Bootsplash updated to version 3 (theme support, progress bar, silentjpeg)
The bootsplash portion seems to work the same, the config file changed some and I'm trying to get the progress bar and silentjpeg figured out.

Credit for the patch and splash utility goes to the SUSE dev's.
Use this procedure AT YOUR OWN RISK!
I take no responsiblity blah blah...
Enjoy the tip, if you see something that can be improved please post

Lets get started...

Download the gentoo sources. I used gentoo-sources 2.4.20-r1 you need the tk package to use make xconfig later.

Now the gui for configuring your kernel pops up. You need to
select your hardware specific stuff (I don't know what you have)
The following items are needed for the bootsplash screen. Compile
into the kernel ie NOT as modules.

What graphic formats can be used with this patch? Also, is there a web site with more information about this patch? I was looking at the "Linux Progress Patch" (http://lpp.freelords.org) for a while, but it seems to have gone stale...I haven't seen any updates since 2.4.12 or something like that. Does anybody know if this patch can mask out the boot messages for intimidated newbies?

This is a xcf file (gimp layered format) with only the translucent box in the center. I like the box for the text. So you can do the following to add any picture. Or just use any jpg and don't use the box.

Open up the image you want to use.
Press "Ctrl + a" to select all
Press "Ctrl + c" to copy picture
Open up template.xcf in gimp.
Press "Ctrl + L" to bring up layer dialog
Click on "New Layer" button
Hit "OK" on layer options
On template.xcf picture Right click -> Edit -> Paste into
In the layer dialog menu click on the anchor.
Click on the down arrow until your picture is on the bottom.
Select the box layer and play with the effects.
Use the "save as" dialog to save your picture as a jpg and when prompted
export the image.

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What graphic formats can be used with this patch?

I have only tried jpg's.

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Also, is there a web site with more information about this patch?

There are README files on the ftp server where the files are downloaded from.

What graphic formats can be used with this patch? Also, is there a web site with more information about this patch? I was looking at the "Linux Progress Patch" (http://lpp.freelords.org) for a while, but it seems to have gone stale...I haven't seen any updates since 2.4.12 or something like that. Does anybody know if this patch can mask out the boot messages for intimidated newbies?

Just an indication of how cool this tip is; I opened it up another 3 times in the same mozilla session, after having initially read it, over a period of 30 minutes and didn't realise until I flicked back through my tabs!_________________Want Free games?
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Unless something has totally and drastically changed since last I checked, gentoo-sources uses vanilla-sources applies 5 MB worth of bzip2'ed patches. Thus, as long as linux-2.4.xx.tar.bz2 is in /usr/portage/distfiles/, you can emerge vanilla-sources without downloading anything._________________I don't believe in witty sigs.

i agree ...it's cool and eye-candy ...but i'm still not going to install it for one sole reason: when i use the pure console (tty) i usually stare at it for hours ...so such an eye-candy could actually cause eye-pain (as in physical pain)

but i have to egree it's really pleasant to look at it ...but as i said ...not for me_________________tea+free software+law=hook

you can see, the difference is that I haven't got the vga= line under the timeout line, is that to have a bigger resolution already in grub itself? I don't know if this is possible, may be you can try to remove that line
(and I don't have the hdd=ide-scsi, but that's another story you can read here)

make sure you have mounted /boot when running

Code:

splash -s -f /usr/share/splash/bootsplash.cfg > /boot/initrd

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